The man behind a fake “ancient” amphitheatre finishes behind bars
A hillside “archaeological site” with ancient Neolithic and Greco-Roman artefacts, impressive enough to charge a €40 entrance fee. Except it wasn’t ancient at all.
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Photo Album: The Hidden Gaze – Dance Behind the Curtain, the Corps de Ballet of La Scala as photographed by Gérard Uféras
A book and an exhibition at La Scala’s Museum show the dancers of La Scala observed though the lens of Gérard Uféras.
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The multimedia exhibition ‘Puccini – Opera Meets New Media’ arrives at La Scala for the Puccini centenary
The multimedia exhibition Puccini – Opera Meets New Media, recounts the disruptive impact that recorded music and film had on the entertainment industry, culture and society.
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Italy now ranks museums as ‘essential services’ after strike closes the Colosseum
After the chaos in Rome yesterday when the Colosseum and the Imperial Fora remained closed for three hours for workers to attend a union meeting, the Italian Government has responded with uncommon rapidity – it’s becoming a habit – and the Culture Minister, Dario Franceschini, announced on Twitter this afternoon that museums and archeological sites will now be classified…
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Selfies and Liszt as Milan’s La Scala Museum opens up for Expo 2015
One of the most important music and theatre museums in the world will see its visitors increase exponentially from May of this year. La Scala‘s Museum attracts around a quarter of a million visitors a year, but with more than twenty million people expected to attend Milan’s Expo, a good many will find their way…
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Museum of Musical Instruments in Reggio Calabria destroyed by arsonists
The Museum of Musical Instruments in Reggio Calabria in Italy, has been totally destroyed by fire after being torched by arsonists. Initial reports suggest that several instruments in particular were set alight, before the fire spread around the whole building. The museum, which is close to the seafront which faces Sicily, was founded 17 years…
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Google helps put high-resolution images of the Dead Sea Scrolls online
Ultra-high resolution images of several Dead Sea Scrolls are now available on the web, after Google helped digitise the ancient texts. The search firm lent its expertise in scanning documents to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Both amateur and professional scholars will now have access to 1,200 megapixel images. Five scrolls have been captured, including the Temple…
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Getty Museum acquires illuminated Bible from 1200s Italy
The J. Paul Getty Museum has added a prized, 750-year-old Bible from Italy to its noted collection of illuminated medieval manuscripts, and the museum says it will go on display December 13 as a highlight of the upcoming exhibition, “Gothic Grandeur: Manuscript Illumination 1250-1350”. The Getty’s announcement says that the so-called Abbey Bible, named for…
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Isadora Duncan dances again in Paris
At the Musée Bourdelle until 14 March is an exhibition devoted to Isadora Duncan. Duncan was the muse for many artists, including Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929) who used her as inspiration for his renowned decorative series of friezes executed for the exterior of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1913). More than 300 drawings and sculpures are on…
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Last week to catch the V&A’s glorious Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes exhibition
This is the last chance to catch the stunning collection of Ballet Russes material brought together by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Diaghilev’s dramatic performances transformed dance, reawakening interest in ballet across Europe and America. Celebrating the company’s key period of activity, this major exhibition reveals Diaghilev’s enduring influence on 20th-century art, design…
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